It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?
Audra McDonaldI'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.
Audra McDonaldPedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.
Audra McDonaldTheater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.
Audra McDonaldI find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a chance to do a little comedy, that's also a nice change for me. Most of the time people think of me as a dramatic actress and singer. And there's a challenge there because comedy is hard. What do they say? "Dying is easy; comedy is hard."
Audra McDonald